For any tech company serving the financial sector, the landscape has fundamentally changed. Digital resilience is no longer a best practice; it's the law. The EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) has arrived, and it's creating a massive market opportunity for savvy MSPs, Fintech innovators, and Cloud Providers.
But what is the Digital Operational Resilience Act in practice? It's a mandate for financial institutions to de-risk their IT supply chain, and that starts with their infrastructure. This guide explains DORA from a tech provider's perspective and shows how a bare metal foundation is the key to building and selling the compliant, high-performance services your financial clients are now required to seek.
The FinTech market shifts
The urgency behind DORA is being amplified by national regulators. The Dutch Authority for Financial Markets (AFM) and De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) recently issued a stark warning:
"The digital dependency of the financial sector entails significant risks. Institutions often use the same (non-European) providers and infrastructures, creating concentration and systemic risks."
This is a clear signal to the market. Financial institutions are now under immense pressure from their regulators to find alternatives to their dependency on a few large hyperscalers. Their report, 'Digital dependency in the financial sector', is a call for a more autonomous and resilient European tech market.
This is your opportunity. European financial clients are now actively looking for Europe-based, sovereign, and high-performance infrastructure partners. They need you.
Architecting for DORA
To meet the demands of your financial clients, you need to offer a solution that is fundamentally more resilient and sovereign than a standard public cloud offering. This is only possible when you control the foundation.
- Offer true sovereignty: By building your services on a bare metal server from a European provider like NovoServe, you can offer your clients something the hyperscalers cannot: guaranteed data sovereignty. You control the hardware, the physical location in a certified European data center, and the legal jurisdiction.
- Deliver the performance FinTech demands: Financial applications, from trading platforms to payment gateways, are incredibly latency-sensitive. A bare metal foundation gives you 100% of the hardware's resources—no "hypervisor tax," no "noisy neighbors." This allows you to deliver the raw, predictable performance your Fintech clients need to compete.
- Build your own compliant cloud: Use our bare metal servers as the "Lego bricks" to build your own DORA-compliant private or hybrid cloud services. You can create a secure, isolated environment for each of your clients, giving them the control and assurance they need, and you the high-value service to sell.
For a detailed overview of the DORA legislation, you can consult the official DORA page of the EU.
A DORA-read infrastructure
DORA mandates security across the entire supply chain. When you choose an infrastructure partner, you are choosing the foundation of your own compliance. Here's what you need:
✅ European Jurisdiction: Your partner must be a European entity, governed by European law.
✅ Certified Security: The infrastructure must be built on a foundation of proven security, including ISO 27001 certification and physically secure Tier-III data centers.
✅ Proven Resilience: The network must be engineered for high availability, with robust, in-house DDoS protection and a redundant architecture.
✅ True Bare Metal Control: You need full, unimpeded access to the hardware to build your own custom, secure environments.
Digital resilience partner
What is digital resilience? For a tech provider, it's a business opportunity. It's the chance to offer a superior, more secure, and more sovereign solution to a market that is now legally required to seek it out.
At NovoServe, we provide the sovereign, high-performance bare metal foundation that Fintechs, MSPs, and Cloud Providers need to build DORA-compliant and truly resilient services. We are not a hyperscaler; we are your infrastructure partner, dedicated to empowering a strong and autonomous European digital landscape.
Ready to architect your compliant solution and capture this market opportunity? Contact our specialists for a complimentary consultation.
